Cowles Mead

Cowles Mead (18 October 1776-12 September 1844) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-GA) from 4 March to 24 December 1805, succeeding Samuel Hammond and preceding Thomas Spaulding.

Biography
Cowles Mead was born in Virginia in 1776, and he became a lawyer in Georgia and served in the US House of Representatives in 1805. Thomas Spalding contested his election, leading to Mead being forced to step down in December, and he later moved to Mississippi, where he served as acting governor from 1806 to 1807, a member of the State House in 1807 and from 1822 to 1823, and a State Senator in 1821. He died on his Hinds County, Mississippi plantation in 1844.